Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bu.edu!snorkelwacker!husc6!encore!encore.com From: terryk@encore.com (Terence Kelleher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Quality of PC sampled sound Keywords: samples, sound, IBM-PC, Amiga Message-ID: <12134@encore.Encore.COM> Date: 27 Jun 90 04:00:01 GMT References: <1990Jun7.173911.424@cbnews.att.com> <1207@metaphor.Metaphor.COM> <1990Jun26.013548.246@eng.umd.edu> <923@gistdev.gist.com> Sender: news@Encore.COM Reply-To: terryk@encore.com (Terence Kelleher) Distribution: na Organization: Encore Computer Corp Lines: 18 In-reply-to: flint@gistdev.gist.com (Flint Pellett) In article <923@gistdev.gist.com>, flint@gistdev (Flint Pellett) writes: > >The sound quality is lousy because the speakers are lousy. It amazes me >that PCs costing thousands of dollars still have $2 speakers in them. >No new invention is necessary, people just need to start demanding that >they get decent speakers. >-- $2.00 ? IBM would go out of buisness spending that much on speakers. Another bad item in the PC is the driver circuit. Unless things have changed from the original PC and XT audio sections, the speaker driver is an open collector output NAND gate. Digital sound with 1 bit resolution. -- Terence Kelleher Encore Computer Corporation terryk@encore.com